The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-20

An interesting Picture of the Later Career
of the Famous French Priest.
Letter in New York sun.
The remarkable condolences between the ca
reer of Pere Hyacinthe and that of Dr. McGlynn
up to the present resting point have been point
cd out by the Sun. 1t is of considerable interest
to millions belonging to the Catholic Church TO
know that Pere Hyacinthe insists to this day
that he Is still Catholic. precisely as DIR. Nc
GIynn, despite the formal accommodation, re-
Catholic Church.
But what is the actual situation of Pere Hya-
cintnos After maintaining with tenacity and
Iersor matched by the tenacity and fervor Of
DE- McGIynn. that the Catholic Church is true,
anu peautlfui, and good. but that the
Latin races were losing faith on ac-
count OF the manner in which the church was
administered, Pere Hyacnthe found that those
who remained inside its communion could have
nothing to do with him. and that those outside
cared nothing about the church. Step by step
he receded further and further. At first he
would never cease TO be prlest-so he vowed as
solemniy on platforms as he had vowed at Saint
Suipice that all his life he would be a monk.
From his cowl and girdle in time he took release
with the Popes leave. and in time he took re-
lease from all his vows without asking the Pope.
IL WAS only two years from the time thae Louis
Feullot denounced him to Rome, unsuccess
fully, that Pers Hyacinthe married the attract
i've and admirable widow of Edward Ruthven
Meriman. Doubtless he said, three days later.
as Balzac said of his marriage: 'rhree
days ago l married the only woman whom
have loved. whom l love moro than ever, and
whom [ shall love until DEATH ] believe that
this union is the recompense that God has held
IN reserve for me through SO many universities.
years of work, and difficulties suffered and over
come. My youth was unhappy and my spring
was fowerless. But shall have the most bril-
liant summer and the sweetest OF autumns"
The marriage has been happy Child
less. Madame Loyson is deeply devoted to her
husband They are familiar pair in the public
places of Paris, and favorites when they 60 TO
London. where they are always welcome in the
Dean Stanley circle. But the happiness is
purely domestic The career of Pere Hyacinthe
closed as sharply If an iron door had been
shut upon it when he finally arrayed himself
against the authority of the church which he
professed TO believe in and TO love- His life for
talents impotent. He had wheeled himself out
of the orbit in which he had shone as a star of
nearly the first magnitude. After wandering
around the heavens for two years finding no orbit
he fell to the earth the of meteoric brilliancy
making some noise and emitting some sparks
when it reached the ground. But when the
sparks had died and the noise had ceased, he
was found be a respectable stick.
Mrs Loyson takes affectionate care of him.
He is SO absent minded that he cannot pay his
fare il an omnibus, and nothing is commoner
than for friends to pick him up lettering tar
from home, without sou in his pocket to get
home with. They not poor, but he forgets
the injunction of Iago; he forgets to put money
in his purse " hen he breaches on Sunday in
the bare little chapel in the Rue d'Arras his
auditors are liable to be AZ numerous as those of
some of the Anglican parsons in Ireland before
could scarcely exaggerate the comical situation
of Pere Hyacinthe as OConnells furious scorn
did not that of the preacher who had repudiat-
ed the doctrines of the Church. but retained its
revenues" Unfortunately for PeIe Hyacinthe,
he has done neither of these things. The Amer
leans and English in Paris go once to hear him.
He has no pew holders. He exercises no infiu-
ence He is cipher. He is worse than that;
he is pensioner on his wife,
DR.. McGlynn has neither repudiated the doc
trines of the church retained its revenues.
He has not married a wife. He says he will not;
and the insinuatiou that he may at any time do
SO he repels with the manner OF man who
honestly looks upon the prophecy with anger
and pain No one has the right, therefore, to
impute to him any such intention. Freed from
his vow of ceibacy, he is free to marry; it would
carry dishonor. Pere Hyacnthe was equally
in declaring that he would not marry. Marrying
was the very best thing he could do, IL was the
only thing for a man in his situation to DO. Like
Dr. McGynn, he believed that he could still be
a Catholic in spite of Rome, and
that he could reform the church from within,
instead of com uniting the great step of Luther.
who undertook to reform it from without His
tory points to Professionalism, to the great moral
political forces of Europe, England aud Ger
many, as the triumph OF the reformer who went
out.
The duli-eyed absent-minded. pale-faced. I'M
known, political. theological and moral limbo
cile, led by kind woman. and seen talking to
empty benches in the Rue d'Arras, tells the
story of the man who. thought he could reform
the Catholic Church from within by defying it's
discipline. How far and how soon will this be
repeateds